I feel bad for those pups. You have 8 kids and two puppies! How thr heck do you think you can keep an eye on everyone at all times. Many times young children don't know how to properly interact with animals and when the animal finally has enough...guess who gets in trouble?!

Arg...thye should have waited until the smaller kids are older beofre getting dogs. Those poor little pups.

I'll never understand why that family got 2 puppies? B/c they were free? that's not a good enough reason, I've watched the show and feel bad for those dogs every time I see them...

Holy cheesecake! Sorry for all the typos! When I'm mad about something I tend to type faster than my fingers move,lol.

i have never watched the show...but I can just imagine that his first statement was in fact true.. Not the second one. I feel bad for the dogs.

I'm not surprised by the first statement (and I think it is true). Little kids are going to be little kids. They are going to tug and pull and play with the puppies not realizing they can hurt them. It seems like the dogs are actually very tolerant... which is a good thing because one of the kids could get hurt.

Think about that for a minute, though. If one of the dogs were to seriously hurt one of the kids, no one would bat an eye if the Gosselins got rid of the dog. For some reason, that's just how it works.

Yes, I think they should have waited a little while longer to get the dogs. I also think all the kids should be taught how to treat animals. As far as the treatment of the dogs, that rests on Jon and Kate's shoulders. Not the kids.

I don't watch the show so I'm not sure how the dogs are treated, but I do know that large groups of kids frequently get overexcited and harm animals accidentally by playing too roughly... Especially if they are accustomed to being around high-strung, b*tchy people that inspire them to act out aggressively.

Also, he's an idiot for saying something like that if it's not true... and if it is true, he's an even bigger idiot for bringing two poor puppies into that madhouse.

if you watch the show, those kids love animals. people shouldn't automatically assume these little 5 year olds are abusing them just because jon exaggerates a bit. people need to chill out. the kids were taught how to take care of the dogs, they make sure the dogs are fed, they get to play and frolic and sniff around in a massive backyard. they're looked after by the entire family.

I think he probably over exaggerated how the kids play with the pups. That's how kids play with animals sometimes, it looks all rough and tumble but a lot of times the kids aren't being actually being rough they are just rubbing every which way and not in an organized fashion like adults do. That being said though the children should be taught proper ways to play with their pets and Jon shouldn't have said what he did say. He really needs to shut up or learn that everything he says will be scrutinized in every possible way and not just blurt things out.

I feel bad for the puppies because kids can be so rough. And I don't think the kids are watched in the way they should be. I think some people want to be in the spot light and it might bite the in the butt.

my eyes were big when they announced on the show that they were getting two puppies ... german shepherd of all dogs (just because they already have 8 kids and wanted to add two very big dogs). i'm glad they got two pups, though, because they have each other for company. the kids seem to be kids around the pups (based on what the cameras show) - and while kids can be rough, the pups can more than hold their own. they are not toy size ... they are large pups. i think people should relax and not assume that the kids are abusing the pups. geez. everyone wants to have a cause these days. the pups seem happy enough on the show - lots of love for the kids and each other to play with ... AND acres of land to run and run. those are not abused pups.

I don't watch the show so I don't know how the dogs react. But I'm curious, do the puppies run in fear of the kids? Puppies play rough with each other so as long as the pups can get away from the kids if they get too rough I don't see the problem. I think both of his statements were probably true. Kids play rough and they are monitored and I would assumed corrected when it gets out of hand.

I agree with KBee, I think people are overreacting. Kids play with dogs all the time. As long as they are supervised (and how can they not be with nannies and cameras with them most of the time) then both species should be fine. Come to think of it, I hope they have a dog trainer on staff as well

Anyone that has kids AND animals knows that kids poke, pull, bite, sit on, drag around, etc. the animal no matter how well you watch them. Fortunately my cat learned to chase my son and with a few well placed swats taught him to respect her very early in life.

I agree with Niami and I don't think Jon meant it the way people took it.

I think that this got blown way out of proportion. Everyone I know with children and dogs can chime in that they have had a simmilar experience, my nieces and nephews used to tug on our dogs and all that all of the time and neither child nor pup were ever harmed by the interaction...we have to remember that natural doggy play is definitely rougher then what these dogs endure from the kids...and while I agree that perhaps these dogs aren't the primary focus of the household they have the run of a hug home and yard and plenty of playmates!

Whether or not it's all true, it sickens me when people let their kids treat pets however they want. They are not there to be some kid's punching bag or whatever. Ugh.

Like another person commented, kids will be kids. And while you do need to watch children with pets to make sure nobody-child or animal-gets hurt, dogs are usually very tolerant and a certain amount of tugging and roughhousing is to be expected. I think people overreacted to Jon's statements. I doubt the kids are literally abusing the dogs.

Thank God,..the pups are finally out of that awful situation,...Kate does not like animals,..you can see that when they had the dogs,..I just can not stank that snotty b*tch,...the kids were not trained to look after pets,..and in fact,..one pup had to have surgery for getting one of the kids toys,..jon was the only one who cared for the pups,..I`am a animal lover,..and on Jons side through all of this mess. Patsy.